All Your Base Still Belong to Us

Just shy of a year ago, in cooperation with Tom Kratman and a few others, I put together this bit of memetic homage:

Francis Porretto reminded me of it in a comment this morning. It’s crazy to think that it’s been nearly a year since Trump took office. It has been a year of triggered SJWs, helicopter memes, and media self destruction. The hatred for Donald J. Trump is beyond anything I’ve seen directed at a political figure in my lifetime. Not even Richard “Tricky Dick” Nixon engendered such vitriolic hate.

This, naturally, is all coming from the peace-love-tolerance crowd. Peace-love-tolerance, of course, only applies to political conformists, Overton Window adherents, and proper Socialists. The level of cognitive dissonance demonstrated by the political Left is staggering to witness.

Trump is supposed to be an evil reincarnated Hitler, or something like that. And yet his daughter and grandchildren are Jewish. And, furthermore, he has done something no President has dared to do: called for the move of the American embassy to Jerusalem. Trump was widely hailed as the harbinger of economic apocalypse. Trickle down won’t work, they said. As a businessman he his a bankrupted failure, they claimed. And yet the economic growth of the last year hasn’t been seen since, perhaps, the Reagan administration. They said he wouldn’t last a year before impeachment or resignation, and yet here we are.

The reason for all this is simple. Trump is blunt and open about his beliefs, occasionally to a fault, something that drives the politically correct into conniption fits. With the politically correct Overton Window adherents, all language must be monitored for proper tone, current “in fashion” political jargon, and otherwise. They aren’t illegal aliens, they are undocumented immigrants. They aren’t stupid, they are intellectually challenged. Whatever. In some cases the meanings of PC jargon shift so fast, it is difficult to keep up with them. Cisgender is a great example. Until a couple years ago, I’d never even heard of such a term. Now it’s ubiquitous on social media, added to such SJW jargon as white cisheteropatriarchy.

Trump, meanwhile, calls Haiti a “shithole” and garners a media shitstorm for it. What of it? Haiti is a shithole. Perhaps he was somewhat vulgar and less than presidential in his delivery, but here’s the important question: is he wrong? To the politically correct, appearances matter more than substance. They don’t want to call Haiti a shithole, regardless of the fact that it is one. They say racism, but how can something be racist if it is true? Must we embrace “non-racist” lies in favor of “racist” truth? To the politically correct, that answer is obvious.

Donald Trump has done us one great service, above all other things: he has exposed the politically correct as dishonest, superficial, egotistical liars. #AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs indeed. We have witnessed a year of collective PC meltdown. I don’t know that it is enough to reverse course in America, much less the rest of the world. I remain pessimistic on our long-term future. And we still need that border wall Trump promised us. The illegals must go back. Our immigration system must be radically overhauled. At this point, I’m not sure we’re going to get that.

But in the short term, the PC meltdown has been epic to witness. It’s a thing I never thought I’d see. If, a few years ago, you had told me Donald Trump would run for office, get elected in one of the greatest upsets in political history, and bring journalists to tears on live TV, I’d have laughed in your face.

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Michel Maiorana
on January 15, 2018 at 3:28 pm

I believe it was Franklin who said “You get the government you deserve”. I thought Trump was to much of an asshole to be Pres. In this instance we got not only the government we deserved but the one we needed. All your base belongs to us more than ever now.

Things are going to be horrific this year. The media outrage machine is not going to go from level 8 to level 10, and not even level 11. It’s going to go off the scale.
The november midterms are the be all, end all for the left. If they can’t win a majority in at least one of the Houses, they are finished. I’m sure they know this.
As a consequence, there is NOTHING AT ALL that they will restrain themselves from doing in order to achieve that goal. Prepare yourselves for a period of notable civil unrest, including riots, more violent attacks on public figures on the Right (besides the ‘baseball’ shootings in DC), and a huge volume of purely fabricated ‘news’ from the Left that goes far beyond the bounds of decency. It will all peak on election day, where BLM and Antifa will shut down polling places and physically assault voters while local democrat party operators stuff ballot boxes and tinker with electronic voting machines – yeah, it’s going to get THAT BAD.
The MSM and the political factions of the Left are going to make a huge push to permanently destroy what’s left of the nation’s social fabric. Count on it.

BTW: I reject with frustration all criticisms of the President’s speaking style and behavior. It is necessary – nay, REQUIRED – and perfectly acceptable in both tone and content.
I grew up in northeast NJ. Donald Trump grew up in Queens. Trump sounds EXACTLY like ‘one of us’ – a no B.S., straight-talking regular guy. Somebody wrote in the press yesterday that Trump acts and talks like a construction worker on the job – and it’s a PERFECT characterization. I know who I’m dealing with when I hear Trump speak, and we need LOTS MORE of this kind of brutally honest, truthful talk – in fact, it’s DECADES OVERDUE.

This war for the future of America does not yet involve bullets (or at least only a few so far.) It’s still mostly a war of words and ideas and, of course, propaganda. But the first side to blink will lose. That’s why Trump needs to AMP IT UP, and the entire repuke party needs to join in enthusiastlcally and unwaveringly.
The source of this ‘sh*thole countries’ statement is democrat Dick Durbin. He has proven to be a slanderer and outright liar in the past. Nonetheless, I would prefer that the accusation were TRUE, simply because the statement itself IS ABSOLUTE, UNVARNISHED, OBJECTIVE TRUTH.
In their reaction, the MSM has tipped their hand and that of the democratic party. The theme of the year will be RACISM. It proved effective at getting Obama elected twice and will be the left’s weapon of choice to finish their work in totally reversing “E Pluribus Unum.”

2018 will be a pivotal year for America and the West. If the repukes, as filled with spineless, quivering, corrupt RINOs as they are, cannot hold the majority in both houses, Trump will not win in 2020 and America will fall to the forces of darkness. You can expect a resurgent Left to come after our guns, destroy the 1st amendment and subject anyone who is not the appropriate shade of skin tone to an unending cultural ‘scourging.’ What the Soviets and the Nazis did to political opponents, gypsies and Jews will, over time, be visited on US.
Some of you are going to vigorously object to that last statement. After all, this is America! How could anything like that happen here?
You must realize that if the Left overcomes Trump and the last offensive of ‘The America That Was’ along with the ‘reverse course’ maneuver it is trying to achieve, they will strive to complete the ‘fundamental transformation’ begun by Obama, the Messiah of the Progressive Church. The SJW types who fill Twitter with amazingly psychotic screeds and, from ivory towers in academia, write wordy, jargon-filled papers excoriating ‘Whites’ and calling for a genocide against the cisgender heteromormative white male patriarchy WILL BE IN THE ASCENDANT. Think of what miserable, mentally disturbed, pseudo-intellectual, faux patriots and ‘warriors’ SJWs are, and think of them driving ideology, messaging and media while effecting social, economic and redistributive change as they see fit. They’ll put us firmly on the Road To Venezuela, with ‘whites’ (and males in particular) conveniently serving as the strawman – the Goldstein – to blame for all the failures of the Progressive Regime.

This is the year of decision on the fate of America and the West.

I’m in flyoverville and figure we’ll be able to hold out a little longer. But for those of you living in or near major Blue city metro areas – wow. I feel for you.

The feminization of American culture is so pervasive that “how you say something” is more important than what you say. How many men have been in this exact position with their wives/girlfriends? If you ask a progressive what the president has done that they disagree with they respond with emotional descriptions of how he “makes some people feel bad.” It’s like listening in on a group of catty women talking about “how I CANT believe what Amanda said at the party the other night.” Worse is that lots of the men, see Durbin, Coumo, Acosta etc. act the same way – these “chickmen” want to be Kardashian’s too.

Just as we all should acknowledge Haiti is a shithole, we should all acknowledge we live in a cisheteropatriarchy. Cisheteropatriarchies are the most powerful, safest, and prosperous societies on earth. Embracing deviancy and moral decay, as those who fight against the cisheteropatriarchy do, embrace societal collapse and the reversion to the primitive.

Sarah Hoyt says we live in a Matriarchy. She should know coming from a real Patriarchy like Portugal. As evidence I give you the instances of states forcing men to pay child support even after DNA has proven a child was not the man’s. I believe eventually there will be a backlash from real men and those women who can’t stand the thought of being around or married to one of the new and improved girly men.

“Trump, meanwhile, calls Haiti a “shithole” and garners a media shitstorm for it. What of it? Haiti is a shithole. Perhaps he was somewhat vulgar and less than presidential in his delivery, but here’s the important question: is he wrong?”

There was no “deliver,” this was a private comment in what was supposed to be a private meeting and it is not even clear what word(s) he used.

If you want to blame someone for the shitstorm, esp any diplomatic blowback, blame Sen. Durbin, who leaked it with total disregard for the interests of the USA, or anything else but short-term political advantage. Just like Durbin impugned our military when the Abu Ghraib problems surfaced. Under the Constitution, “treason” is a very hard crime to establish and prove, but Durbin’s actions, which distinctly harm the US vis a vis its opponents, come close.